Join us for our monthly restoration work days!

It has been decades since this stretch of the waterfront provided good habitat for native birds, plants and animals, and we are working to change that! Wigi Wetlands lies along the Eureka Waterfront Trail behind the Bayshore Mall. Redwood Region Audubon Society, in conjunction with the Humboldt Trail Stewards, is working to create bird-friendly habitat by removing invasive plants and garbage. 

This section of the trail contains dry lands as well as seasonal wetlands, and a salt water marsh. A meadow that was filled with Scotch broom has been a main focus, and there is now just a fringe of the invasive plants left to be removed. River otters were spotted nearby!

Closer to the bay, one area was covered in white sweet clover, completely blocking the view of the bay, and covering a lot of native plants. The clover has been removed, the  bay is visible, and the native plants are flourishing there! Cedar waxwings paid us a visit to enjoy the twinberries we had uncovered.

Our workdays are the 4th Saturday of each month, 9:00 - 11:00. Meet us behind WalMart.

We provide great tools (ever used an extractigator?), wonderful company, and the opportunity to make a difference for the birds. Join us to help remove invasive plants, pick up garbage, and enjoy the beautiful stretch of the trail. Light, packaged refreshments offered. Please bring your own water.

Remaining 2024 workdays:

October 26     

November 23   

December 28

Three years ago this field was full of Scotch broom plants taller than you. The bay was hidden from view behind them. Many work days spent using extractigators, shovels, pulaskis and lots of muscle brought the bay back into view.

Dennis Houghton pulled the last of the old-growth roots,as well as the huge pampass grass plants, with the help of the mighty machine.

Next year we hope you will see a meadow of native wildflowers here!

We filled the green waste bin!

White sweet clover (Melilotus albus) is pretty, and also invasive. Four years ago a large swath by the bay was covered in it. We cleared the area, and four years later we are removing the plants that grew from the residual seed bank.

Hal Genger, Joann Kerns and Susan Penn spent a couple of hours chopping the flowering stalks, giving the Humboldt Bay gum plant (Grindelia stricta) room to expand, and the bay is visible again!

The excavator is half-hidden by a huge clump of pampass grass by a wetland area. And then...

The mighty jaws pulled it all out. The pile at the right is all that remains of that stand.

Photo shows a BIG Scotch broom plant that was dug out of the meadow by Terry, with her son, Jeremy, holding the trophy.

The purposes and objectives of this corporation shall be to engage in such educational, scientific, investigative, literary, historical, philanthropic, and charitable pursuits as may be part of the stated purposes of the National Audubon Society, of which this corporation shall function as a Chapter.

Mailing Address:

PO Box 1054 Eureka,

CA 95502